Eat Dates-Dried Dates with Pleasure

Eat Dates-Dried Dates with Pleasure

Introduction: The cold season has arrived and food items are in abundance in this season. Jaggery gajak, rewari, peanuts and dates are eaten fondly in this season. If you want to serve others and be philanthropic then definitely be like the date fruit.

There is hardly any fruit which is philanthropic and multi-purpose like the date. This is the jaggery of the poor and dry fruits of the rich. Coconut and date palm are the only trees which are called ‘all-purpose trees’ by the scientists.

Highly Nutritious:

A date palm tree gives 50 kg of fruits every season. Its average age has been estimated as 50 years. Dates are cultivated in dry areas of the Middle East and North Africa. Its production is highest in Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. This fruit eaten during cold days is very nutritious. It contains 75 to 80 percent glucose.

Dates are called ‘winter fruits’ and eating them in this season has special benefits. Dates or Pinda khajur are rich in many types of nutrients. It contains iron and fluorine in abundance. Apart from this, it is a very special source of many types of vitamins and minerals. By using it regularly, you can keep yourself away from many types of diseases. It is also helpful in keeping cholesterol low. The level of fat is also very low in it. Dates are rich in protein as well as dietary fiber and vitamins B1, B2, β3, B5, A1 and C.

Dates & Dried Dates:

Dates and dried dates are the product of the same tree. The nature of both of them is hot. Both of these play an important role in keeping the body healthy and making the body strong.

Due to its warming effect, its usefulness increases even more in the winter. Dates have more nutrition than dried dates. Dates are available only in winter. Dried dates are also called ‘Kharak’. This is the dried form of dates, just as the dried form of grapes are raisins. Dried dates are used as dry fruits. It has two main types – 1. Dates and 2. Pinda-dates.

Features:

It is cool, sweet in juice and cooking, tasty, dear to the heart, deeply satisfying, acceptable, fortifying, and cures wounds, bile, vomiting, phlegm, fever, diarrhea, hunger, thirst, cough, and breathlessness. It destroys diseases caused by asthma, unconsciousness, gas, bile, and alcohol consumption.

Chemical Composition (Rich in Nutrition):

Its fruit contains protein 1.2, fat 0.4, carbohydrate 33.8, Sutra3.7, mineral matter 1.7, calcium 0.022 and phosphorus 0.38 percent. Neera made from the juice of this tree contains Vitamin B & Vitamin C in sufficient quantity. Ripe dates contain relatively more nutrients. Up to 85 percent sugar is found in it.

Usage:

By immediately drinking ‘Neera’ made from the juice of dates, one gets nutritional properties and it is also a strength enhancer. Jaggery is also made from its juice. It is used to quench vata and pitta. It is nutritious & diuretic. It strengthens the heart and nervous system. It is also useful in eliminating mental weakness.

Weakness:

Boil 4 dried dates in a glass of milk and cool it. In the morning or at night before sleeping, separate the seeds and eat the dates by chewing them thoroughly and drink milk. By consuming it continuously for 3-4 months, the thinness of the body goes away; the face becomes full; beauty increases; hairs become long and thick and semen increases. This experiment is useful and beneficial for everyone, young, adult and old age men and women.

Removes Physical Weakness:

Eat two dried dates along with their caps on an empty stomach in the morning, chewing them thoroughly, for two weeks. Start taking three dates from the third week and four from the fourth week. Keep in mind not to take more than four dried dates.

Along with this experiment, before sleeping at night, eat two dried dates for two weeks, three dried dates in the third week and four dried dates from the fourth week to the twelfth week, i.e. till the completion of three months, boil them in a glass of milk, remove the seeds and chew them well. Drink milk thereafter. This experiment gives extraordinary strength to men and women, makes the body strong and removes physical weakness.

Asthma:

An asthma patient should chew and eat 2 dried dates every morning and evening. This strengthens the lungs and reduces the possible attack of cough and cold.

• If digestion power is good then eating dried dates is more beneficial.
• Dried dates can be consumed throughout the year, because this dry fruit is available in the market in every season.
• Dried dates provide strength to the stomach.
• Due to the warming nature of dates, its consumption during cold days also provides relief from nerve pain.
• Dried dates are counted in the category of dry fruits. With its use the body becomes healthy and strong. Dried dates are especially used along with dry fruits to give strength to the body.
• Dates and dried dates provide strength to the heart. It increases blood in the body.
• People suffering from sciatica get special benefit from it.
• Consuming two dried dates in the morning and evening removes mucus from the lungs of asthma patients. They provide relief from cough and cold.
• Dates also help in relieving paralysis and chest pain.
• To increase appetite, take out the pulp of dates and cook it in milk. After cooking it for some time, cool it and grind it. This milk is very nutritious. This increases appetite and food is also digested.
• Leucorrhoea is a major disease of women. Leucorrhoea can be cured by crushing dried date seeds, frying them in ghee and eating them with Gopi sandalwood.
• Soak the dried dates in water. Once melted, mash them with your hands. Use this water for a few days, physical irritation will go away.
• If you are thin and want to get a little fat then dried dates are for you. It can prove to be a boon, but if you are obese then consume it with caution.
• If you are suffering from cold, add five grains of dates, five grains of black pepper, one grain of cardamom in a glass of milk, boil it well, add one spoon of ghee in it and drink it at night. Cold and cough will be completely cured.